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DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –
Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory
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Associated Docs

Associated Docs

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    Jan Bartsch
    Guest Doc from Marburg University
    Soziologie | Social & Cultural Anthropolgie | Science and Technolgy Studies
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    Jody Danard
    Associated Doc
    French & Francophone Studies
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    Ximena Cervantes Englerth
    Associated Doc
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    Jana Faber
    Associated Doc
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    Lilli Hasche
    Associated Doc
    Law | Legal Anthropology
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    Lara Herford
    Associated Doc
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    Rosa Lütge
    Associated Doc
    Religious Studies
  • Portraitfoto Helen Stephan
    Helen Stephan
    Associated Doc
    Science and Technology Studies | Critical Race Studies | Queerstudies

Former Associated Docs

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    Jan Schulze Buschoff
  • Portraitfoto Jan Dittrich
    Jan Dittrich
  • Portraitfoto Jonas Trochemowitz
    Jonas Trochemowitz
prison of difference

“‘Contradiction is the prison of difference‘ writes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Worlds of Contradiction asks: how can we explain and describe the world without making it more coherent and systematic than it is?”

Michi Knecht
coherence in thought

“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”

Yan Suarsana
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano